The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-03-18
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, March IS, 1857.
COUNTY's REYOLUTIONA
ny RECORD.
mostly from Original Documr n,s.
BY G. W. ARCHER.

On Friday, 5th May at the Committee Cham
Der, the gentlemen following were present Us
namesl, Mr.. Aquila Hall in the chair.
The following appointment of an election. taken
in connection with the returns of the same made
TO the Committee twelve days later. will aid in
explaining, though by no means complet'l y two
points which are involved In some obscurity: :
namely, the mode Of holding elections in those
days, and the territorial extent of each Hundred;
for in the latter case, the place designated for
voting may be fairly presumed to have been GEN.
trial and approximately convenient to all alike.
ION motion, that persons be appointed to at
tend the Convention at Annapolis when they may
be required, II Is ordered that each Hundred in
the county 40 appoint Two men 70 t aend me
may be perilous, II is desired that persons to be
chosen be out of the most substantial and know
ing In the Hundreds and voted in by the major-
ty of persons in each Hundred qualified to vote
at elections. And IL is further ordered that the
said choice be made on Monday. the 18th inst,
and at the several places hereafter mentioned;
to say, in Spesutia Lower at the church in Sus-
quehanna, at James Horner's; spesutia Upper.
at the Hickory tavern Deer Creek town. at the
Chapel; Deer Creek Upper, at Ashmores Mill;
Gunpowder Lower, at Joppa; Bush River Lower.
inson's and It is requested by the Committee
present that as public notice of this election be
made as can be, and returns be made by the sew
cral hundreds, on the 18th inst at Hartford Town.
LAS II is appointed by the Convention lately
held at Annapolis, that Thursday, the 1lth day of
this Instant be set apart for humiliation fast and
PRAYER throughout this Province for avertng
the impending danger that we at present labor
under.-0rdered, that the same be made public
men in the said county to demean themselves
accordingly. -. -.
Congress will nave occasion of money for their
expenses, and IL was proportioned in the last
Convention that this county pay twenty-eight
pounds towards the same, 1t is now ordered that
Mr., AQua Hall pay the same out of the money
he has In hand, and that the several hundreds
subscribe and repay the same, to be returned TO
him, to replace the money now taken for that
purpose; meeting Of the Committee for Hartford
tIau M If Harf I'd OTnM hn
the Sth OF May l175. were present, viz: us names
givenl the Rev; Mr.; John Clark in the chair.
tee that he, with Messrs Aquila Paca and will
liam Bradford, Sen'r, went to Otter Point and
inquired into the affair OF salt there; and says,
that from the best accounts they could get, 1t
does not appear to be any of the cargo of salt i'm
ported by DR.. John Stevenson.
"Dr. John Archer makes report that Mr.. Johu
Wilson has about 100 lbs OF gunpowder, which he
is willing to sell at the price it cost him which
the Committee agrees to give for Il. This pow
der having been bought by Mr.. Wilson in Phila-
delphia before the provincial convention lmetil
1t is thought unjust TO compel him TO lose by IL:
and IL is therefore ordered that Mr.. Aquilla Hall
pay him for the said powder el5.lO0 cwt., with
tho additional cost ot2H cwt;
What "2K" represents-whether pounds, shil
lings or pence-must be left to the dscernment
of the reader.
AT meeting of the Committee at their Cham
Der at Hartford county, on wednesday, the 18th
May, present [26 names, Mr.. John Matthews in
the chair Amos Garrett, Crk:
"On the application Of Mr.. Thomas Chambers
to purchase the mare bought OF DIR. Carvill Hall.
she was disposed of to the said Chambers on the
following terms; that he pay into the hands of
MIR. Aquila Hall the sum OF twelve pounds. to
be returned to the several persons who advanced
the sum for the said mare; and that Mr.. Cham
beers let her go on any express the Committee
may have occasion for. gratis and that the said
mare shall be paid for by the Committee, provid-
cd accident should happen, that when she Is out
on the Committees service she Is lamed or other
WAYS damaged
There arc, from three OF the hundreds returns
of the election of deli gates t. the provincial
Convention, as ordered by the meeting of May
the 9Th to be made to this meeting. They are as
follows:
Hartford county, Set: We. the inhabitants of
Deer Creek Upper Hundred, having met on Mon
day, 18th May, in pursuance of a resolve of the
county aforesaid, to choose two deputies to repre-
sent US at the next provincial Convention, have
unanimously chosen the following gentlemen
bind ourselves to each other by all the ties of
lgon and honor, faithfully to stand and abide
by the resolves of the continental Congress and
provincial Convention: In witness whereof we
have hereunto set our hands and seals this 18th |
of May, l775." Here follow % names, each with
a circumscribed seal"
The return from Spesutia Lower Hundred be-
gins with the words, AT meeting of the Free
holders" of that Hundred, &C.. The delegates
chosen-Mr. Benedict Edward II all and Mr.. Fran |
els Holand-are instructed to cooperate with |
the other delegates of the Convention in all that
may seem necessary for the good of the common
cause" There are 10 names affixed, to which
there Is no seal"
The return from Bush River Upper Hundred
begins AT meeting of the Inhabitants" is as
short as such a document could possibly be. and
certihes that Thomas Bond, ESD, and Mr.. Samuel
Ashmead were unanimously chosen.
signed by us: